Payment Card

Payment Cards, such as credit cards, debit cards, or charge cards, are payment instruments issued by banks, financial institutions and businesses to individuals (card holders). The card holder can present the card to make cashless payments for goods and services at a merchant, who has an agreement with the issuer to accept the payment.

Payment Card consists of the card data (root) and information regarding blocks (node: Block).The business and technical purpose that applies to all service interfaces of this business object is the processing of payment card master records.Customer and business partner payment card master data are stored at two different storages in the SAP back-end system.The related semantic name of this object in the SAP SUITE back-end system is payment card master record.

You cannot delete a payment card master record from the SAP SUITE back-end system because this may result in inconsistencies, such as,  if a payment card which has already been used for payment transactions will be physically removed from the system.